Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Can journalists be unreachable?

Can journalists be unreachable? Can they switch their cell phones off and sleep when news — good, bad and ugly — happens? Can they tell people who seek information, some of them fellow, albeit rival journalists, that such details are not meant for them? Can a leading newspaper afford not to pick up a ringing telephone?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

NO :)

No, ofcourse, if one is adequately staffed..then its all No no no no no.

if not...then...No (said with bloodshot 'eyes-after-workin-nonstop-cos-ur-shortstaffed 'Eyes
:)

Raj Menon said...

Aha. : ) But something of the sort happened earlier today. Not here, where I work, but elsewhere. Where I used to work. Heh.